Product Description

25" Redencao Brazilian Handmade Professional

Cavaquinho Soft Case

Case For All Sizes Cavaquinhos

with manufactory warranty

Handmade in Brazil

• Total length : 25"

• width : 5.5"

. width : 10.5"

The cavaquinho is also found in other places. In the cavaquinho was introduced in the thirties from Brazil. The present-day Cape-Verdean cavaquinho is very similar to the Brazilian one in dimensions and tuning. It is generally used as a rhythmic instrument in Cape-Verdean music genres but it is occasionally used as a melodic instrument.

In the (especially ), it was introduced by Portuguese and became an important part of the popular music of that place.[] The have an instrument very similar to the cavaquinho, called the , which is based on the machête or braguinha (variation on the cavaquinho), brought to the islands by Portuguese immigrants. The Hawaiian ukulele also has four strings, though tuned differently (usually G-C-E-A), and a shape somewhat similar to the cavaquinho. The machête was introduced into Hawaii by Augusto Dias, Manuel Nunes, and João Fernandes in 1879.